Madison County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Madison County, New York had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.79 times the US outage time per person and 1.28 times the New York rate. It ranks 38 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

71 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Julhardest months

April and July made up 30% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 20, 2022, reached 2,941 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.2 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	81,852	46	1
2016	72,919	37	2
2017	136,625	50	3
2018	179,720	49	5
2019	85,154	36	3
2020	121,008	47	3
2021	156,490	55	4
2022	265,360	71	4
2023	62,814	45	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Apr 20, 2022	71.2	2,941	117,060
Oct 7, 2020	44.5	2,992	46,406
May 18, 2017	24.5	4,273	45,498
Mar 2, 2018	33.2	3,754	44,964
Dec 12, 2021	24.5	4,570	41,879

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.